Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Consider an AI that has hedonism as its final goal, and which would therefore like to tile the universe with “hedonium” (matter… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
